John Leech
Main Page: John Leech (Liberal Democrat - Manchester, Withington)
Monday 31st October 2011
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Grant Shapps
We are keen to protect people on low incomes, not on high ones, as the hon. Lady suggested. The point about the housing benefit changes is that many of her constituents, along with mine and everyone else’s, will be asking how it can be fair for people in receipt of housing benefit to live in homes and streets that people on ordinary salaries cannot possibly afford to live in. That is the system that we are going to fix; when the Opposition were in government, they used to support that policy.
Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington) (LD)
Will the Minister ensure that the revenue raised by pay to stay is ring-fenced for social housing?